The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 85

Teddy’s mother and father came in, the last thing, to look at their boy, and Rikki-tikki was awake on the pillow.

Who acts: mother, Rikki tikki · What happens: come in, look, be · To what, where: last thing, pillow

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Rikki tikki), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teddy	Teddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mother	nmod:poss
2	’s	's	PART	_	1 Teddy	case
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 father	cc
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	conj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 look	mark
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 boy	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 boy	nmod:poss
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 look	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 awake	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 awake	cc
20	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 tikki	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Rikki	punct
22	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 awake	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 awake	cop
24	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 pillow	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pillow	det
27	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 awake	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in	past	Teddy's mother and father	the last thing			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive	Teddy's mother and father not said here			at things's boy	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boy=Theme
3	is	past	Rikki tikki		the pillow	awake property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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